Anchorage Fire Chief Doug Schrage says, from his perspective, a fast-moving wildfire is the single biggest threat the city faces.
A wildfire burns in the McHugh Creek drainage near Anchorage in 2016. Steep terrain made it tough for Firefighters to reach the fire on foot.
Summer in Alaska means wildfires and while the vast majority of scorched acreage is usually in remote areas of the state, there’s always the possibility of a fire getting out of control in a city, burning homes and maybe even injuring or killing people. That’s what worries Anchorage Fire Chief Doug Schrage, who says, from his perspective, a fast-moving wildfire is the single biggest threat the city faces. So, Schrage says, the Anchorage Fire Department is stepping up wildfire-fighting efforts this summer with better preparation and planning.: A large fire could escape our containment lines. It could jump roads, if the weather conditions and the wind and the terrain were just right.
When we stand up this wildfire mitigation program, there will be four main components to it. There will be community planning, which will help us to improve the ability of residents to escape from a fire. It will have a fuels management component, which will be fuels risk assessments, and some of that work’s undergoing now, and some fuel treatments, including thinning, shaded fuel brakes, fuel removal and so forth.
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